Re: Live Media

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> backend
> openSUSE : kiwi
> Debian: Live-helper
>
> both are script based available for the command line. live-helper has been a
> moving target for me. I have not tried kiwi in a while. This reflects my
> personal very biased view and I am looking for comments. A year back both
> solutions were barely usable (for me).
>
> frontend:
> openSUSE: private beta openSUSE studio (unclear when they will open it)
> Debian: I am not aware of any

Just guessing from the title: It is intended to be a frontend GUI to
create a live medium?  I would always prefer scripts to make the process
reproducible.  If it is a frontend to create scripts it might be interesting.

> non-standard repositories
> openSUSE: all packages in openSUSE buildservice can be included
> Debian: a custom sources list for apt needs to be carefully crafted

???
I've thought metapackages basically solve this problem.

> custom files
> openSUSE: can be added via webinterface
> Debian: can be manually supplied in target directories, it is kind of hard for
> me to track when changes need to happen

What kind of changes?

> sharing
> openSUSE: supposedly available via their servers
> Debian: needs to be hosted by us

Might be subject for discussion.

> Here are some things I would like to see covered from the GNUmed perspective.
>
> 1.) ease of use when simply updating the package list such as a new GNUmed
> release

Isn't this just be done by simple rebuild of the ISO?

> 2.) point and click switching between USB, CD, network media

Sounds like an interesting feature.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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